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Immigration and the California Economy
As immigration policy has become an urgent policy item in the United States and Europe, California
finds itself caught squarely in the middle of competing economic and political agendas.
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Green Gold: Californias New Cash Crop
California, already the nation’s largest producer of medical marijuana – a $7 billion industry – i
s poised to become the largest recreational marijuana market in the world.
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Global Overview: Navigating a World in Transition
A global transformation is underway as changing political tides, emerging demographic trends, and
relentless leaps in technology disrupt traditional social and market foundations, heralding an era of rapid change and challenge.
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Global Private Equity Outlook
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The Global M&A Outlook
Mergers and acquisitions exceeded $3 trillion for the fourth year in a row in 2017, and for the th
ird consecutive year announced 50,000 deals.
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The Global M&A Outlook
By the end of 2016’s boom in global takeover activity, the value of M&A totaled $3.6 trillion,
making it the second-best year (after 2015) for dealmakers since the financial crisis.
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Macroeconomic Outlook
Last year, integrated expansion across emerging and developed markets combined with low inflation
and beneficial monetary policies to fuel the continuation of one of the longest economic recovery periods on American record.
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Macroeconomic Outlook: The Search for Value
According to the OECD, global GDP growth is projected to pick up modestly to around 3.5 percent in
2018 from just under 3 percent in 2016, boosted by fiscal initiatives in the major economies.
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Global Overview: Priorities in a Changing World
Disruption - whether in technology, markets, economies or politics - is a hallmark of the modern a
ge. These accelerating upheavals call into stark relief the goal of strengthened security, regionally and globally.
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Europe: Past Tense, Future Perfect?
In a time of rising authoritarianism and global turmoil, many are looking to prosperous and democr
atic Europe for leadership. But even as the Eurozone economies seem to finally be recovering from crisis, extremist parties are on the rise and the U.K.
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Humanity, Revised? Editing and Augmenting the Human Species
The concerns our parents had about us when we born will we be healthy, good-natured, inquisitive,
successful?—seem mundane compared with the questions today's parents may have, given the unrelenting pace of technological innovation.
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eSports: Will Competitive Gaming Be the Next Major Sport?
Global esports revenues are expected to jump 38 percent in 2018 to nearly $1 billion, and by 2021
should hit $1.65 billion.
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